> "Charles W" btinternotwithoutunmunging.com> wrote in message
> news:eP6dnbIRhchXiinVRVnyvwA@bt.com...

>> "JennyC" wrote
>>

>>>>> Bloody shame.
>>>>> In Germany they have saved loads of old industrial sites/buildings
>>>>> etc., and transformed them into all sorts of other uses. Theatres,
>>>>> amusement parks,
>>>>> climbing towers.........

>>>>
>>>> What could you do with a cooling tower?
>>>> Mike

>>>
>>> Indoor climbing centre
>>> Fill with water as a diving school
>>> Art gallery (just add huge spiral staircase)

>>
>> OK - what do you do with a structurally unsound cooling tower? Which is
>> what E-On reckoned these were.
>>
>> As for filling them with water...Ummm...even if they _had_ been
>> stucturally sound, the stresses involved would have been in entirely the
>> wrong directions.
>>
>> Using the site for a Biomass power station seems more prudent. :-)
>>

> you could fill it about 1/4 of the way up with charcoal and make a regally
> big barbecue smoker.
>
> zol